San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu
Welcome to San Stefanos (NW Corfu) => San Stefanos news and views => Topic started by: Tredegar Boy on May 10, 2011, 04:10:24 PM
-
Webcam weather looks awful yesterday and today so I was wondering whether anyone had been and come back yet. What's the news?
Yammas
-
Not back but here.....Yesterday Monday was pretty awful, rain wind and dull. Today sort of mixed, sunny spells, cloudy at times but during the cloud breaks warm and somewhat breezy.......
-
What's the going rate for a Mythos this year?
-
What's the going rate for a Mythos this year?
One track mind Jimbo ! LOL
-
Two.
-
Beer and?
-
embroidery, obviously!
-
First confirmed sighting of Vlad the black vampire dog wins a free Mythos (must be photographic evidence)
-
Vlad* is a descendent of Κυων Χρυσεος, the Golden Hound who guarded the baby Zeus, and cannot be photographed. He watches over from the constellation Canis Major. A mere attempt to capture this sublime entity on camera will result in you being renamed "Don" and having to watch every Stoke City match.
In case you're new to this forum and think we're all insane - yep - you worked it out!
__________________________________________________________________________
* Footnote: Vlad is a mysterious large black dog which is rumoured to lurk through the village at night. He has allegedly been spotted in the vicinity of Romanza and passing through Athina. He is said to have a particular passion for Kumquat Marmalade, probably because the quantity thereof has been in ancient times a contentious feature of the Romanza breakfast. Scholars suggest that Vlad may, in fact, be a scruffy black mongrel which has been elevated to mythic status by visitors who have spotted him after a night in the Condor Bar. Some regular visitors to Agios Stephanos, however, assert that Vlad is an elemental being who possesses those who see him. A scientific team is expected to investigate the phenomenon in 2011 and publish a paper provisionally entitled "Vlad The Black Dog in relation to Classical Studies and the Metaxa Dream."
-
Vlad* is a descendent of Κυων Χρυσεος, the Golden Hound who guarded the baby Zeus, and cannot be photographed. He watches over from the constellation Canis Major. A mere attempt to capture this sublime entity on camera will result in you being renamed "Don" and having to watch every Stoke City match.
In case you're new to this forum and think we're all insane - yep - you worked it out!
__________________________________________________________________________
* Footnote: Vlad is a mysterious large black dog which is rumoured to lurk through the village at night. He has allegedly been spotted in the vicinity of Romanza and passing through Athina. He is said to have a particular passion for Kumquat Marmalade, probably because the quantity thereof has been in ancient times a contentious feature of the Romanza breakfast. Scholars suggest that Vlad may, in fact, be a scruffy black mongrel which has been elevated to mythic status by visitors who have spotted him after a night in the Condor Bar. Some regular visitors to Agios Stephanos, however, assert that Vlad is an elemental being who possesses those who see him. A scientific team is expected to investigate the phenomenon in 2011 and publish a paper provisionally entitled "Vlad The Black Dog in relation to Classical Studies and the Metaxa Dream."
ROFL
-
A few Mythos and the weather inproves - that's about the time you start to see Vlad the "Horse-sized" Doggie!
The more Mythos - the bigger he grows!! LOL
-
Does Krasi work the same as haven't seen yet?????? Perhaps not then!!!!!!
-
Mythos Rules of course!! LOL
-
Just touching base looking over a sunkissed almost waveless bay with the scent of the Gardenia heavy in the air and birds singing all around. Yes, its Agios Stefanos on a cloudless and virtually windless day in May. The village is fairly quiet and walkers are prominent rather than filling the beach. There are a few sunbeds below Delphin Blu and Havana but nothing else. The council have done a good job clearing up the beach and it all looks ready for the season. There is about the same area of beach compared to last year but the bank of flora by Athena has been eroded a little - it has meant that the exit from Athina to the beach has been brought a few metres to the west.
The Mango sign has been taken down and the area intended for lunching the residents of Delphin Blu. It is very smart and finished to a high standard. Of course non residents can eat and drink there but I just get the feeling that the area right to the beach beds will be a bit exclusive. There is an extension to Mango that has not been finished right up to the Havana border. We did have a cocktail at Delpin Blu last night and saw a spectacular sunset. It really is a great view and worth the €7 for the drink!
Prices remain around the same a last year but some are saying they are going to raise the prices a little in mid June. They are obviously well aware that the hike cannot be too much.
Perdita has done a good job to her new shop that used to be Magnet bar/Simple. Noula has, as reported earlier, moved to her premises opposite Perdita.
Most of the shops are open. The Olive Press looks to be opening soon. Bar 38 is running but sadly without Hilary, who is said to be in Sidari.
We had a meal at Nafsike and chatted to Speros. He has started a blog which has a recipe and another go at the calling of the village San Stefanos http://thehotelnafsika.wordpress.com/ . We eat at Fantasea tonight. Costas has really tried hard to get the place going and the menu looks inviting.
Have not tried the water this year. Just about to bare my body. It will mean the beach edge will be a littlel nearer the Waves!. Oh yes, the footpath to Arillas is passible, just. There is a small area that has a 12 inch ledge but just needs a bit of care! Will have to see ifits still OK when we return in July!
Just off to Waves for a spot of lunch. Somehow get the feeling we dont want to return to the UK on Monday!
-
Thanks Kernock. Good to get a report back as we'll be there in two weeks! Is the juice bar open yet, it's a favourite stop for a drink and a chat with Shane and Sandra if we're out fro a wander. Enjoy the rest of your stay!
-
Have to say, do read Speros' blog. It's great. Comments are interesting, too. Read mine!
-
Just read Speros's blog. Really enjoyed it!
-
Hi - anyone out there this week - look out for Alan and Carole with daughter Heather - staying at the Little Prince.
Please say hello for me - - - photo - - -
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2215899&l=9dfbb90b72&id=566056451
Thanks
Tony
-
Just read Speros's blog. Really enjoyed it!
Me too - enjoy Agios Stefanos!!
-
Hi Kernock,
Nice to have the first report - thanks.
Intersting your comment re: Bar 38 with Hilary in Sidari. What's happened there? Last year Spiro was very ill in a Athens hospital and I don't think he was home come the seasons end. Haven't heard anything about them since.
Hope everythings okay with them - lovely people.
-
Just read Speros's blog - FAB! Hope it goes from strength to strength and he puts some more delicious recipes on. Love the Nafsika, it's food and it's position in Agios Stefanos - am going to forget the SS and go for the AG Stef!
-
debra - that's right! After all, Agios Nikolaos in Crete's been called AgNik for a very long time.
Loved the bit in Speros' blog about confused Thomson reps firing people off to random places across the island. That rang so true I laughed out loud. Reminds me of a Frederik Poul science fiction story in which prospectors get onto little alien ships with no idea how they work - they could end up on very rich vein of minerals or dead in the middle of a star. Poul didn't know that the event was run by Thomson.
We're all too lazy about speaking Greek. Speros writes very good English. It's shaming that we can't return the favour. It would be so nice if instead of a trip we could have some basic Greek lessons in the village. About as long as a welcome party. One of the things that's so simple is male names, and I see people who've been going there for centuries get it wrong. If you are talking about Dimitris, you use the name Dimitris (or Spiros, or whatever) but if you talk to the actual man (vocative case) you drop the final sigma. You do not say "Kalimera, Dimitris" - you say "Kalimera, Dimitri." These are tiny little things we could get right so easily. We're so lazy.
-
Love Spiros' blog which I also found on another forum....was good to see you and the family the other evening at Kamini Bar and catch up. So pleased for all the weather has been more settled the past 2 days, we actually managed dinner outside this evening in the village. Looking forward to a lovely weekend in ag stefanos........
-
I did Greek lessons for a year and a half at Oxford University evening classes.
Glad I did them but still can't speak fluently.It's such a hard language. The basics are easy enough though and it wouldn't hurt anyone to learn those.
I can read the words but I don't always know what they mean .lol.
I gave up doing them because I was spending my whole day off from work doing my homework and not doing any housework! We began to live in a tip so things had to change. I still listen to my Ipod, which I've got lessons on, every now and again to refresh myself.
I'm so looking forward to visiting Agios Stefanos and meeting all these wonderful people you're all talking about.
This site is great.
-
Sitting overlooking the bay on another day that is almost windless with the sun burning off the cloud over a flat sea many colours. The week with little wind has given back about 3 metres of beach and the sandbanks are now clearly evident. There are few more chairs on the beach but not attendend. Costas of sunbed fame says that because 11 councils in Corfu are now combined into one there are administrative problems. The Beach auction is not until 15 June so, until then, beds are free.
If one accepts the gamble with the weather May is a glorious time to see the Island in all its beauty. Old Perithea is stunning just now with masses of wild flowers along the old pathways around the slowly reclaimed houses. The background on the hills covered with the bright yellow Cytisus makes it a picture – all the better without flies and wasps that seem the plague the place in summer. I have bared my body in the sea and found it pleasantly warm(ish). Not so different from the summer months after a few days of no wind. Nafsika pool, however, does take your breath away at present.
The village is still fairly quiet. For the last 20 years I have heard the locals lament that the present year is worse than the previous but I think now it may be true. They are between a rock and a hard place with prices between getting a reasonable margin and not scaring off the tourists. The Government had hoped to bring in extra cash with the VAT rise but it might not happen if gross income is reduced.
The Avliotes by-pass is a bit of a mess at both ends at present. It is said that it will be completed by the end of July. I wonder!
Yes, Shane and Sandra are back at the Juice Bar. Pleased I think to be away from the clearing up all around them in Queensland from the recent flooding. Nikos and Kerry went out to Oz over Christmas and came back to see the Council have continued the footpath along Ozzie Oils and not given them any drop in the curb to get cars into their parking space.
As for Bar 38, I have not spoken directly to either Hilary or Spiros but I understand things are not too good but those close to the couple may have better news. I hope so because they did seem a lovely couple and they put a lot of energy into the new bar.
Glad the Speros blog is liked. I saw him yesterdqy and told him that it had been well received. He will continue with a few thoughts and recipes. I think the next one will be Spinokopita, one of my favourites there.
Back to the UK late tonight. As usual, the end of a relaxing week and a good preparation to returning in 54 days time.
-
Wishing you a good flight back and see you later in the summer......
-
Thanks Kernock - I enjoyed that blog - well written!
-
Just heading out to the airport now!
AS here we come! ;D ;D ;D
-
Have a good one IrisG